As the resident expert (sorry, sudge), I've been asked to have a look at our style sheet for Doctor Who. Naturally I have Opinions, but I want them backed up by you lot.

(Actually, I'm well aware it should probably be TARDIS, but it annoys me. I think Tardis is fine: I know it's an acronym, but it's like Unicef or laser, a proper acronym rather than an initialism. And all-caps is shouty. Breaks the flow. Also, I'm pretty sure Time Lord is two words, but just to check. These are all things the BBC website has both ways...)

ISTR in the Sixties Tardis was usual. It was the name of the ship; just because Susan had made it up from the initial of Time and Relative Dimensions in Space didn't make them treat it pedantically as an acronym.

I don't! Current practice is to treat pronouncable acronyms as words, and quite rightly too in the Hag's opinion. Which is by definition right. Until she changes her mind. Which she won't on this matter.

Should change mine to K-9 forgot it was written on his side, stand by The Doctor because he is the only one of his kind thus he is not "a" Doctor. I see Time Lord as a title and Timelord as a race. TARDIS is, in my humble opinion, indisputably an acronym.

I suppose I stick with the TARDIS because I think that 'Time and Relative Dimensions in Space' is too awesome an acronym to be forgotten about. Writing it in all caps reminds that, while spoken as a word (like, say, laser), it is an acronym, and a funky one at that.